It seems like everyone on here was having so much fun and doing so well this season and I wasn't seeing much, that I was starting to wonder if it was going to happen this year for me or not.  Well, it came together Friday evening.  With about 10 minutes of shooting light left, I was standing up in the stand, bow at the ready.  Figuring, the evening is about done, I'm thinking about where I will hunt the next day when I hear a twig snap just to the right of me.  That isn't a squirrel!  I glance over to the right to see this long nose doe walking in without a care in the world.  I look ahead to see where she will be broadside and I can get a clear shot. She needs to go around a 10 foot high tree stump and I'm all set.  She suddenly stops just before the stump and gazes off into the distance.  I realize she is maybe 5 steps from my wind line and actually slightly quartering away, so why wait.  I make the draw, pick a spot and let it fly.  I hear a loud crack and she runs off with a lot of arrow sticking out, but the entry is exactly where I was aiming.  I watch her run into a stand of hollies and then hear her go down.  I text my partner and then get out of the tree slowly and back out to fetch him.  There isn't a lot of blood, but she is down not 30 yards from where she was hit.  I caught both lungs and penetrated through the opposite side shoulder.  The arrow broke off as she was running and I recovered the back half.  The front portion worked it's way out and lay where she fell.

I used my 48# Leon Stewart Slammer with CE 150 arrows w/125gr Stinger 2-blade heads and 50gr brass inserts.  It's nice when it all comes together.  I have taken deer with recurves before, but this was my first longbow kill.  

It's great to shoot a big racked buck, but fooling these older long nose does isn't easy and I'll take the meat in the freezer.  I can hunt horns the rest of the season.

dang nice doe!!! I agree with you 100% about fooling those old does... nice bow too,, my buddy has a 3-piece slammer hopefully he'll make meet with it soon and make leon proud..

Nice Pat  

Nice doe, congrats!

Congrats

Nice harvest.

Those 3 PC. Slammers are amazing shooters.

Well Done, nice Doe!    

Congrats, nice job on the doe. I am still trying to get my first with the longbow this year.

Congrats! Nice doe.

Very nice!!!

Very nice!  I'm jealous... Still waiting for mine to connect.

Congrats  

           

Pat, i see you put your slammer you kept to good use.  That is a nice doe and a good story.              

Congratulations!  Nice looking doe and bow!

Bernie Bjorklund

NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin

Nice! Congratulations and good shooting. And you still have your buck tag for the best time of the season.

Outstanding!     Congrats!  

Great job!